I.　The Lamb—Rev. 22:1:

A.　In the New Jerusalem Christ will still be the redeeming Lamb:

1.　He was appointed the Lamb in eternity past; He died as the Lamb in time; and He will be the Lamb for a memorial in eternity.

2.　In the New Jerusalem we will remember that we were fallen and that we were redeemed by Christ as the Lamb:

a.　In the New Jerusalem we will have the Lord's table eternally.

b.　We will remember how Christ gave His body for us that we might become His mystical Body, and how He shed His blood for our sins that we might be redeemed back to God and have the right to come to Him and enjoy Him as the tree of life.

B.　As the redeeming God Christ will administrate within the New Jerusalem in the new heaven and new earth:

1.　The throne of God and of the Lamb is the center of the New Jerusalem.

2.　From this throne, Christ, the redeeming God, will carry out His administration, based on His redemption, in the eternal kingdom in the new heaven and new earth.

3.　Christ's work of administrating within the New Jerusalem is for His expression through His administration.

II.　The Husband—Rev. 21:9:

A.　In eternity Christ, the Lamb, will be the Husband.

B.　For eternity Christ will live a married life with His redeemed ones:

1.　Christ, the Redeemer, will be the eternal Husband.

2.　His redeemed ones will be His eternal wife.

C.　The New Jerusalem as the wife is for the Lord's satisfaction in love.

D.　As the wife of Christ, the New Jerusalem comes out of Christ, her Husband, and becomes His counterpart, just as Eve came out of Adam and became his counterpart—Gen. 2:21-24.

III.　The temple—Rev. 21:22:

A.　In eternity Christ with God will be the temple.

B.　The expression the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb refers to the redeeming God.

C.　The temple is the dwelling place not of God and the Lamb but of the redeemed saints, who serve the Triune God by dwelling in Him.

IV.　The lamp—Rev. 21:23:

A.　In eternity the Lamb as the lamp will shine with God as the light to illuminate the New Jerusalem with the glory of God, which glory is the expression of the divine light.

B.　God, being the light, needs a lamp:

1.　God dwells in unapproachable light—1 Tim. 6:16.

2.　Outside of Christ God's shining would be a killing, but inside of Christ God's shining is an illumining.

3.　Because the divine light shines through the Redeemer, this light has become lovable and touchable.

4.　Through the Lamb, the redeeming One, God's light becomes an enjoyable shining for His dispensing.

C.　Revelation 21:23 is a clear picture of the centrality and universality of Christ:

1.　God shines in and through Christ, and Christ shines in and through the New Jerusalem.

2.　By this, Christ will be the centrality and universality in the coming eternity, when Christ will be the center, the circumference, and everything in the New Jerusalem.

V.　The spring of the water of life—Rev. 21:6:

A.　In the New Jerusalem Christ will be the spring of the water of life.

B.　The water of life is the Triune God Himself as life to us—Rev. 22:1.

C.　The fountain is the Father, the spring is the Son, and the flow, the river, is the Spirit.

D.　In eternity Christ will be the spring of the water of life, even as the Spirit will be the river and the Father will be the fountain.

VI.　The tree of life—Rev. 22:2:

A.　In the New Jerusalem the crucified and resurrected Christ will be the tree of life for the nourishment of the sons of God, the saints as the components of the New Jerusalem.

B.　The fruit of the tree of life will be our life supply, and the leaves of the tree will be for the healing of the nations:

1.　The regenerated believers will eat the fruit of the tree of life, receiving Christ as their life and life supply inwardly so that they may enjoy the divine life for eternity.

2.　The restored nations will be healed by the leaves of the tree of life, taking the deeds of Christ as their guide and regulation outwardly so that they may live the human life forever.

VII.　The Shepherd—Rev. 7:17:

A.　In eternity we will not have problems, but we will still need Christ's shepherding.

B.　As our Shepherd Christ will guide us to the springs of waters of life:

1.　This indicates that He will shepherd us into Himself.

2.　He will guide us into Himself as the spring of the water of life so that we may enjoy the eternal dispensing of the Triune God, that we may express Him to the fullest extent for eternity.